There is a Holocaust taking place in America right now. We can't
hear it, because there are no barking dogs; we can't see it, because
there are no goose-stepping Nazi soldiers and no concentration camps;
we can't smell it because there are no gas chambers. But the net
result is exactly the same ... if we fail to act now ... the
"silent Holocaust" will have done its job. Hitler will have
emerged victorious.

Ephraim Buchwald.[1]

Anti-Life Philosophy.

Jewish law is quite clear in its statement that an embryo is not
reckoned a viable living thing (in Hebrew, bar kayama) until thirty
days after its birth. One is not allowed to observe the Laws of
Mourning for an expelled fetus. As a matter of fact, these Laws are
not applicable for a child who does not survive until his thirtieth
day. We support legislation enabling women to be free from the whims
of biological roulette and free mostly from the oppressive crushing
weight of anachronistic ideologies and theologies which, for reasons
that escape my ken, continue to insist that in a world already
groaning to death with overpopulation, with hate and with poverty,
that there is still some noble merit or purpose to indiscriminate
reproduction.

Rabbi Balfour Brickner, National Director of
the ultraliberal Commission on Interfaith Activities.[2]

The Dilution of Jewish Heritage.

I cannot but agree with your evaluation of the situation in Israel
as elsewhere as the result of the worldwide spread of atheism or as I
prefer to call it people brainwashed into being unbelievers in the
sanctity of life and the rule of G-d over the World. In Israel, it is
a particularly sad situation as a combination of Communism and
non-religious Zionism have created an educational system totally alien
to spiritual values and therefore have caused a generation to be
raised in a destructive atmosphere.

Sephardic Chief Rabbi Israel Ovadya Yosef.[3]

The Major Jewish Sects.

One way of gaining a better understanding of Jewish religious beliefs
is to recognize that religious Jews generally follow one of four
different spiritual paths, which may overlap to a considerable degree in
some areas;[4]

 Orthodox Jews maintain strict adherence to traditional customs,
including the Biblical laws regarding family purity. Only about 7
percent of American Jews count themselves as members of this group.

 Reform or Liberal Jews are essentially Humanistic, but apply
nominally Jewish customs to contemporary life. About 41 percent of
American Jews count themselves as members of this group.

 Conservative Jews try to maintain a strong Jewish identity
while combining important elements of both Orthodox and Reform
Judaism. About 40 percent of American Jews count themselves as members
of this group.

 Hasidic Jews may be seen as even more conservative than
Orthodox Jews as they follow a uniquely mystical path.

The Tragedy.

For many centuries, the word "Jew" conjured up many images,
the foremost of which were those of a people fortunate enough to possess
a rich family life and strong commitment to religious precepts.

Every Jew was an essential member of two extended families one where
he lived and the other where he worshipped. These dual families strongly
reinforced each other and were literally the warp and woof of daily
Jewish life. This dedication to family and faith, in turn, greatly
strengthened the extended Jewish nation as a whole.

History has shown us time and again that a nation will endure only as
long as its people remain dedicated to their families and to their
faith. Once the focus of the people turns inward, to selfish motives,
the nation begins to die.

Therefore, it is truly one of the great tragedies of our time that a
people who have survived the most vicious attacks through the millennia
are now destroying themselves more effectively and efficiently
than any external enemy ever could. This sense of disaster is multiplied
by the fact that the destruction of the Jewish people is entirely
preventable but the Jews, who are the only ones who can save themselves,
seem unwilling to do so.

The most galling irony of all is that the Jews are themselves
completing the task that Hitler and all of his legions could not
accomplish.

It is also excruciatingly true that, for a period of eight centuries
(from 1144 to 1945), virtually all of the major persecutions of the Jews
were based upon unfounded allegations of ritual child murder.[5] Now, in
the United States, Jews enjoy freedom from genocide but have led
the drive for legalizing the slaughter of preborn children, a uniquely
Modernistic form of ritual child murder on a massive scale.

The Cause.

The cause of both homeland and American Jews turning away from their
families and their faith can be stated quite simply. The Jewish culture
has been assimilated to a great degree by the great Western melting pot.

A survey of the City University of New York's North American Jewish
Data Bank revealed that American Jews are becoming less religious with
each passing generation. Currently, only 40 percent of American Jews
spend more than three days per year in public worship.[4]

Hallmarks of traditional Jewish life are fast disappearing. The
expressions of ideological secularism (to include labor Zionism) have
almost vanished from the public scene, as have Landsmanschaften
societies and Yiddish-speaking Sholem Aleichem schools. The outwardly
visible signs of Jewish piety the yarmulkes, the mezuzahs, the public
schoolchildren noticeably absent on holy days, the fellow office worker
who always brownbags in order to keep kosher, the friend who does not
drive or answer the telephone on Saturday all are disappearing.

Destruction of the Family.

It is interesting to note that traditional Jewish law holds as a
religious precept that married couples must abstain from intercourse
during menstruation, and resume intercourse only after the woman's
immersion in a ritual bath immediately following the cessation of
menstruation, and after a period of abstinence of not less than twelve
days. This timing made certain that first intercourse coincided
approximately with ovulation, and such practices would guarantee the
continued survival of the nation. As a general rule, Jewish law
discouraged the use of artificial birth regulation, and the only
permitted method of child spacing was breastfeeding.

The Jewish culture has traveled a long way down a very dangerous road
since these laws were widely observed.

Just as Christians have done, Jews are being "absorbed"
into American culture. More young Jews are waiting longer to get
married, then tend to marry out of the faith and have one, two, or no
children. Jews currently have less children as a group than any other
religious or ethnic group, and have more people of marriageable age
remaining single than any other group.[4]

And Jews have one of the highest abortion rates of any group of
people in the United States, a fact plaintively echoed by one Jewish
couple upon learning that their first grandchild had been aborted;
"Jews are being screwed out of existence. Who uses birth control?
Who gets all these abortions? We're being physically wiped out!"[6]

The Jewish situation in the homeland is even more tenuous. The
October 1987 Conference on the Demography of the Jewish People in
Jerusalem hardly mentioned the fact that, in 1986, there were 60,000
abortions in Israel and only 70,000 births.[7]

The world's foremost authority on Jewish medical ethics, British
Chief Rabbi Dr. Immanual Jakabovits, has recognized that the high Jewish
abortion rate now poses a greater threat to the Jewish people than even
Hitler did; "These self-inflicted [abortion] losses are proving far
more catastrophic than anything we've experienced in our
history."[8]

On November 25, 1980, the Minister of Health in the Knesset announced
that, of all abortions committed in Israel, 12.2% were for age
indications (under 17 or over 40), 33.4% were excused by fornication or
adultery, 14.2% were for fetal deformity, 32.2% were for the mother's
physical or mental health, and 8 percent were for "social"
reasons. This last clause of the 1977 law was repealed by the Knesset in
December 1979.[9]

The demographic impacts of the low Jewish birthrate are compounded by
the very high Moslem birthrate in Israel and neighboring countries.
Adherents to Islam oppose both abortion and artificial contraception,
and they are very patient. They recognize that there is more than one
way to conquer the world. As Atifa Dawat, an Iranian delegate to the
July 1985 conference entitled "Forum '85," in Nairobi, Kenya,
stated, "The more children we have, the better. When there are
enough Moslems in the world, then we will have world victory."[10]

At the rate they are going, Jews will be a minority in their own
country, even within the pre-1967 boundaries, by the turn of the
century.

Destruction of the Faith.

Not only are Jewish families disintegrating, but the majority of Jews
have abandoned the faith of Abraham and Moses and are thus transforming
the very definition of the word "Jew."

The largest survey of U.S. Jews ever performed showed that 75 percent
believed that the word "Jew" was more indicative of a cultural
group than a religious group.[11]

Many people who identify themselves as "Jewish" simply do
not practice their faith. They are part of a large group with a common
history, customs and traditions upon which they can draw. Their homeland
is Israel, and their identification as Jews has little to do with
religion.

This theory is supported by a second survey performed by Steven M.
Cohen, professor of sociology at Queens College in New York, who found
that Jews in general were much more secular and liberal than the general
population.

Agree with Statement
Non-Jews
Jews
Homosexuals should have the
same rights as other
people
59%
85%
I would support a Constitutional amend-
ment permitting school
prayer
72%
18%
It is acceptable for a city government
to erect a Menorah during
Chanukah
64%
37%

Cohen concluded that "Jews are more liberal because they are so
secular that is, non-religious. Although deeply attached to other Jews
as an ethnic group, Jews report religious service attendance rates far
lower than other Americans. Generally, the more religious Jews are more
conservative."[12]

This is naturally also true of Christians. As the classic example,
members of the pro-abortion propaganda group 'Catholics' for a Free
Choice are extremely Neoliberal in their outlook, while those Catholics
who take their Faith seriously are much more conservative.

Conclusion.

Jews have survived more organized oppression than perhaps any other
group of human beings in history. Therefore, they might be said to offer
the conclusive proof that oppression and religious fervor seem to go
hand in hand, while an extended period of unlimited freedom is virtually
synonymous with indifference towards the Almighty.

American Jews suffer from the same terminal malaise that Christians
do. Both groups are being secularized and being assimilated into the
secular 'mainstream' American society. Both groups are bringing up a
generation of children woefully ignorant of the basic tenets of their
faiths and completely uninstructed in basic Judeo-Christian morality.
And both groups have as their visible spokespersons and media darlings
those persons whose views are most diametrically opposed to the faiths
that they purport to represent.

Traditional Jewish
Teachings on Abortion.

To what can the child be compared inside his mother's womb ... as
with a candle perched on his head he perceives the world from one end
to the other? ... [W]ho shall replace me in those former months, the
days when the L-rd watched over me? ... and he is taught the entire
Torah ...

Nidah 30b, The Talmud.

Introduction.

Why do various Jewish factions disagree so radically about abortion?

Basically because the Jewish faith has suffered the same catastrophic
ethical schism that the Christian church has endured: Denominations
representing most of its adherents have thrown away the inspired Word of
God and now view themselves as their own masters. Meanwhile, Orthodox
Jews struggle to pass on their beliefs and practices to their children
in the face of an ever more anti-religious world. The result is a
splintering of the original faith into a crazy quilt of sects that
embrace the complete range of beliefs on every imaginable social issue.

In order to properly understand this conflict and the resulting range
of views on abortion, it is necessary to review the basics of
traditional Jewish religious law.

Summary of the Seven Noahide Laws.

First and foremost, Jewish faith is based upon a body of Commandments
that include the seven Noahide Laws and a total of 613 parochial
commandments.

These laws, just as our Constitution is supposed to be, are
interpreted (but not altered) by a vast body of rabbinic opinions
and case law referred to as Halakhah (the Talmud), which is based
upon divine revelation.[13]

The primary difference between the two sets of commandments is quite
clear.

The seven Noahide Laws are universal, in that they apply to everyone,
Jew or Gentile.

The primary objective of the 613 parochial commandments in the Torah
(The Five Books of Moses) is to support and preserve the seven
indispensable Noahide laws. They are therefore not universally
applicable to all people.

Some examples of these parochial commandments are;

 Do not randomly cut down trees (Deuteronomy 20:19);
 Do not randomly castrate animals (Leviticus 22:24); and
 Jewish men who sterilize themselves are cast out of the community
(Deuteronomy 23:2).

Interpretation of the Third Noahide Law.

The Old Testament contains the seven Noahide Laws in Genesis 9:6. The
third law contains the admonition "He who spills the blood of a man
in a man, his blood will be spilt." The Talmud (Sanhedrin 57b)
defines "a man in a man" as a preborn baby in his mother's
womb. This passage specifically states that abortion is a capital crime,
a view supported by one of the leading sages of the Talmud, Rabbi
Yishmael.[7]

Maimonides, the great twelfth-century interpreter and codifier of
Jewish law, stated that "Six commandments were commanded by God to
Abraham and the commandment of cruelty to animals was added to Noah ...
When Abraham came he was commanded to circumcise ... and Moses was given
the Torah."[13]

In his interpretation of the Third Noahide Law, Maimonides writes in
his Mishneh Torah that abortion is a capital crime for the Jews;
"A descendant of Noah who kills any human being, even a fetus in
its mother's womb, is to be put to death."

On "Hard Travail."

Maimonides ruled that abortion is allowable only if the pregnancy
definitely and without question endangers the life of the mother
(Hilkhot Rozeah 1:9 and Shulhan Arukh Hoshen Mishpat
425:2); "This also is a negative precept: not to have compassion on
the life of a pursuer. Therefore, the Sages' rules [regarding] a
pregnant woman in hard travail that it is permitted to dismember the
fetus in her womb, whether by chemical means or by hand, for it [the
fetus] is as one pursuing her in order to kill her."[13]

This passage refers to "hard travail," which was a delivery
complicated by the size or position of the baby, so that a normal birth
was impossible. At the time this commentary was written (prior to the
development of obstetrical forceps and, later, safe surgical techniques
for Cesarian section), this sort of problem would often result in the
deaths of both mother and baby. The only way available to remove a baby
that was "stuck" was to dismember it. In most cases, the
mother would have been in labor for literally days, and the baby would
have died due to anoxia.

In summary, The Talmud rules that abortion is permissible only in
very extreme cases: specifically when a woman's "hard travail"
places her life in definite danger (Oholoth 7:6). This is a
codification of Maimonides' concept of the rodef, or
"pursuer."

Therefore, traditional Jewish law holds that the unborn child has a
right to life just as strong as the mother's except when he poses
an imminent and actual danger to her life.

The Catholic parallel to the "hard travail" exception is
referred to as the "double effect," and is described in
Chapter 43, "Catholic Church Position on Abortion."

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Rabbinical Court of America and the
U.S. coordinator of the Jewish Survival Legion, Rabbi Marvin S. Antelman,
clearly stated the position of Jewish Noahide law on abortion when he
said in 1978 that "All major religions have their parochial and
their universal aspects, and the problem of abortion is NOT a parochial
one. It is of universal morality, and it is neither a Catholic problem,
nor a Jewish problem, nor a Protestant problem. It involves the killing
of a human being, an act forbidden by universal commandment."[14]

Chief Rabbi Dr. Immanual Jakabovits outlined the foundation of the
reasoning behind this statement when he held that "Jewish law sees
every human life as having the sanctity of intrinsic and infinite worth.
One life has as much value as one hundred or one thousand; you cannot
multiply infinity and you cannot divide it. So every human being has an
identical worth and is identically worth saving."[8]

Exceptions to the Third Noahide Law.

It is interesting to compare the attitudes of scholars from the
various branches of Judaism regarding permissible exceptions for
abortion.

Jewish law, while not specifically granting full personhood (nefesh)
status to the preborn, nevertheless modified strict obligations in order
to accommodate pregnant women. The Sanhedrin allowed the Sabbath to be
violated for the sake of the preborn child, and no pregnant woman could
be tried for a capital offense until she had given birth.[7]

The Talmud held that the preborn baby was "one of the living
limbs of the mother." This might sound like support for the
pro-abortion "woman's body, woman's choice" slogan, but it
must be noted that The Talmud also prohibited any form of
self-mutilation. Therefore, protection for the preborn child except in
the case of "hard travail" was absolute.

Orthodoxy permits abortion to save the life of the mother only in
instances of "grave necessity." This might include aggravation
of a serious heart condition or if the mother's physical health would
deteriorate drastically as the direct result of fetal deformity, a rare
occurrence indeed.[7]

Relying upon this and related rulings, in certain extraordinary
cases, Orthodox rabbis have, for specific individuals and for extreme
circumstances, allowed abortions in the cases of documented
pathologic mental anguish.

These few specific exceptions (numbering no more than six) have
naturally led pro-abortion propagandists to state that Jewish law allows
abortion for any physical or mental indication whatever. It must be
remembered that pro-abortion activists used the very same technique in
secular courts to expand the "physical and mental health of the
mother" exception until it could justify literal abortion on
demand.

As a reflection of this strategy, Conservative and Reform scholars
require only "severe anguish" to be shown before abortion,
which is, of course, no limitation whatever on abortion. Any woman can
claim that she will suffer "severe anguish" if she is
"forced" to continue her pregnancy. It must be remembered that
any person facing a crisis pregnancy can legitimately claim "severe
anguish" and that, of course, this has absolutely no bearing on the
value of the preborn child's life.

Conservative and Reform scholars say that the Sinaitic Laws referring
specifically to the Jewish people do not treat abortion as a capital
crime in Exodus 21:22-23. But the Hebrew word for a miscarried baby in
Exodus 21:22 is y'ladeha, or "child," instead of u'bar
or v'lad, the terms for "embryo" and "fetus."
Therefore, this passage implies that the preborn has already achieved
full humanity, and to deliberately cause its death would therefore be a
form of homicide.

Exodus 21:12 speaks specifically of capital punishment for killing a
man, so many liberal scholars conclude from the sum of the passages in
the 21st Chapter of Exodus that capital punishment is meted out for
killing a man but not a preborn baby.

But the Conservative and Reform scholars seem to avoid the
fundamental point in all of this. The Talmud states in Nidah 31a that
there are three partners in the creation of a child: The father, the
mother, and Hashem. According to Chazal, this means that the
creation of a child is the direct will of the Creator Himself. Does it
make any sense to deny the will of the Almighty by killing one of His
creations for any circumstances less urgent than to save another
of His creations a woman in "hard travail?"

Certainly on the issue of abortion we, as the true practitioners of
the total and complete law of our immutable Holy Torah, are not
represented by those Jewish secularists who advocate open and
legalized abortion. Again I say it: We consider abortion to be murder,
plain and simple. We do permit it only to save the life of the mother,
as the saving of a sure life is of greater priority to us than killing
an existing one in order to complete a life in formation. Every case
is judged individually. Other than that, we oppose abortion in every
way and for every reason. This is the Jewish point of view, and it is
important to let our non-Jewish friends know that.[15]

Rabbi Doctor Bernard Poupko, Chairman of the Rabbinical Board of
Greater Pittsburgh, and National President of the Religious Zionists of
America, further states that; "Judaism has been the moral mentor of
Western civilization, and no code of morality surpasses our Bible's
concern for human life. Our holiest days and every religious precept
must be set aside in order to save a human life. A sensitivity to social
injustice is embedded within our tradition. And it is Judaism which
resists a blanket allowance to abortion except under controlled
circumstances as prescribed by competent rabbinic authority. Living in a
time as we do when divinely revealed, universally binding and
time-proven moral principles and ethical values which are divinely
revealed are being challenged by a new and ruthless onslaught of
secularism and nihilism, when some priests in the "Temple of
Science" are relegating the sanctity of human life into the
confines of a test tube, we who are committed to the notion of the
divine image of man must speak up and act, vigorously and courageously,
for the preservation of human life, both born and unborn."

Finally, Dr. Louis C. Gerstein, Associate Rabbi, Spanish-Portuguese
Synagogue of New York, states that "The position of the traditional
Jewish doctrine is that interruption of pregnancy is admissible only
when there is imminent danger for the mother's life and when no other
way is possible."[16]

Jewish 'Dissenters'

Engineers of the New American Holocaust.

I would suggest that one of the greatest dangers facing the Jewish
people in Israel is the direct result of a Western mental attitude,
foreign to Judaism, and totally self-destructive. I am referring to
the present Israeli secular attitude towards childbearing, fertility
and family planning. If these attitudes are not drastically changed
soon, there may be dire consequences for the Zionist dream and the
Jewish people.

Shimon Glick.[17]

Yet More "Diversity of Opinion."

There are more than a dozen major branches of Judaism in the United
States.

Those branches that have adhered to the original teachings of Judaism
are invariably pro-life. Groups representing these branches include;

 The Rabbinical Alliance of America;
 The Rabbinical Council of America;
 United Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada; and
 The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America.

On the other hand, Neoliberal Jewish sects are a superb source of
anti-life propaganda, and they enthusiastically push abortion, sodomy,
pornography, and euthanasia. Organizations representing totally
pro-abortion Jewish sects include;

These sects, in cooperation with the United Methodist Church, were
the religious groups most responsible for establishing abortion on
demand in the United States, and many of their members actually led the
push to legalize abortion. There is not much hope for reform in these
organizations, because many Jewish seminaries have gone sour, just as
have many Christian seminaries.

For example, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and the
Hebrew Union College even deny the divine and eternal nature of the Torah.

It is obvious that ultraliberal pro-abortion 'Jewish' sects (just
like many so-called 'cafeteria Christians') have simply discarded the
Commandments that do not suit them. In order to psychologically insulate
themselves from this action, they have surrounded themselves with a lush
thicket of Newspeak and other New Age trappings just as many Neoliberal
'Christian' sects have done.

The "Victim Status" At Work.

As described in Chapter 9 of Volume I, "The Anti-Life Victim
Status," it is now socially unacceptable to criticize the actions
of any member of a certified "victim group," regardless of his
actions. These groups include women, Blacks, sodomites, and Neoliberal
Jews.

Even the most casual examination of social trends reveals that
individuals from these "victim groups" have a much greater
latitude to commit unethical and illegal acts and to say outrageous
things than do those persons who are not members of these classes of
people.

Whenever some brave person raises objections to even the most
flagrant abuses committed by "certified victims," he or she is
inevitably labeled "misogynist," "racist,"
"homophobic," or "anti-Semitic," depending upon the
"victim's" background.

The mere fact that the perpetrator of some heinous act is a member of
one of these groups must not stop pro-lifers from proclaiming the truth.
If activists allow a person to use his gender, race, religious
upbringing, or history of sexual perversions as a blanket excuse to
commit atrocities, then there is simply no way to effectively oppose
these atrocities.

'Jews' in the Lead.

There is no doubt that people who identify themselves as 'Jews' have
led and do lead the abortion movement, not only in the United
States, but all over the world.

Yet these pro-abortion 'Jews' violate the most basic Jewish laws
regarding the sanctity of life. They claim to be Jews merely to deflect
criticism, just as renegade 'Catholics' trumpet their nominal religious
affiliation in order to pander to the whims of abortophiles. They are
usually members of ultraliberal 'Jewish' sects that are the theological
equivalent of various 'Christian' churches. The primary purposes of
these groups include functioning as propaganda organs for the new social
revolution and salving the consciences of congregation members.

The Role of Pro-Abortion
'Jews' in the American Holocaust.

Judaism regards all life including fetal life as inviolate.
Abortion is not a private matter between a woman and her physician. It
infringes upon the most fundamental right of a third party that of the
unborn child.

Statement of the Union of Orthodox Jewish
Congregations of America, issued at its 78th National Convention in
1976.

In The Beginning.

In the late 1960s, pro-life activists observed that the abortion
'rights' movement was primarily motivated and led by people who called
themselves Jews. About half of all abortionists and abortion clinic
owners identified themselves as Jewish, which was far out of proportion
with the Jewish population, which made up less than five percent of the
United States population.

Dr. Kenneth Mitzner, a California aerospace engineer who founded the
pro-life League Against Neo-Hitlerism, wrote in 1973 that "It is
tragic but demonstrably true that most of the leaders of the
pro-abortion movement are of Jewish extraction."

Dr. Mitzner, who is himself Jewish, said in a 1987 statement that;
"Jews must decide whether we condemn Hitler and his followers
because mass murder is intrinsically evil or whether our quarrel is just
with their choice of us as victims. If our concern is only with the
killing of Jews, we have no claim on the sympathies of the rest of
humanity. Some Jews ask the world to weep with us for the Jewish victims
of Nazism, and at the same time they promote the murder of innocent
babies by abortion. Such Jews are the most contemptible of
hypocrites."

Many self-described 'Jews' continue to lead the abortion movement
and, most pitiable of all, 'rabbis,' properly cloaked in all of the
correct trappings, proclaim that abortion is not only a necessity, it is
a Good Thing for America.

These 'rabbis' realize that they are simply front men, and so simply
parrot the pro-abortion line, apparently without thought. One good
example of a profoundly myopic statement was recently provided by
'Rabbi' Ernst J. Conrad, writing for the 'Religious' Coalition for
Abortion Rights; "It would not occur to American Jews to suggest
that the centuries-old attitude of our faith toward the question of
abortion should become the required guide for all other Americans whose
teachings on this matter may differ."[18]

A more profoundly stupid statement could scarcely be imagined. While
Conrad spews this nonsense, the group he represents does insist
that its view on abortion be forced on all other Americans (the view
that life begins at birth), and it does insist that all Americans
fund abortions for poor women, regardless of their personal beliefs.

'Jews' Perpetrating Another Holocaust.

The American pro-abortion movement has always been led by those who
claim to be Jewish. Just a few examples of the extraordinary range of
activities by pro-abortionists who identify themselves as Jews are
listed in Figure 44-1.

FIGURE 44-1
COMPLICITY OF APOSTATE "JEWS" IN THE AMERICAN ABORTION
HOLOCAUST

 All four original organizers of the most influential group of
abortion pushers in the United States the National Abortion Rights
Action League (NARAL) were of Jewish birth, including now pro-life Dr.
Bernard Nathanson.

 Dr. Christopher Tietze worked for the Population Institute and
International Planned Parenthood Federation, and did more to promote
the worldwide slaughter of innocent unborn children than any
other person.

 Dr. Alan Guttmacher was president of the Planned Parenthood
Federation of America for more than a decade, founded Planned
Parenthood Physicians, and did more than any other doctor to promote
abortion in this country. He also advocated mandatory abortion and
sterilization for certain groups in the United States.

 Dr. Etienne-Emile Baulieu, inventor of the RU-486 abortion
pill, was born in 1926 to a physician named Leon Blum. He changed his
name in 1942 to escape the Nazi's Zyklon-B gas, manufactured by the
same company he works for today Roussel-Uclaf!

 Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich is the 'father' of the
overpopulation myth. His 'work,' The Population Bomb, was the
'spark' that ignited the anti-natalist movement, even though his
assumptions and research have been thoroughly debunked and discredited
by scholars and leading demographers (this book predicted widespread
famine in North America by 1990, with more than 40 million
people dying of starvation. Instead, diet books crowd store shelves).
The book, sloppily written in just two weeks , was simply the spark
that the disorganized anti-population people were waiting for, and it
was eagerly seized upon and used for propaganda. Like Guttmacher, he
advocated forced abortions and sterilizations in the United States.

 Lawrence Lader, king of the abortion propagandists, has written
several books crammed with fabrications and outright lies that have
helped advance abortion all around the world. Examples of these books
are Abortion and Abortion II. Lader was quoted 11 times
in Roe v. Wade, because he had a message that the Justices
wanted to hear. (In the same decision, testimony from the world's
leading fetologist, Dr. A. W. Liley, was totally ignored because it
decisively undercut the Court's decision). Lader also hints (screams?)
at his attitude towards population control in another book entitled Breeding
Ourselves to Death. Lader also founded Abortion Rights
Mobilization (ARM), which sued the Internal Revenue Service in court
in a failed attempt to get the tax-exempt status of the Catholic
Church revoked for opposing abortion too effectively. He also was one
of the leading proponents of the abortion pill RU-486.

 Henry Morgentaler of Canada opened illegal abortion clinics in
the city of Toronto and performed thousands of abortions with the
complicity of the city police. The court cases arising from his
activism led directly to the overturning of protective abortion laws
in Canada and abortion on demand.

 California and New York state legislators led the drive for
legalized abortion in the United States. Legislators who constantly
emphasized their Jewishness led the pro-abortion movement in both
states; those leaders included state senators Anthony Bielenson in
California and Albert Blumenthal in New York.

 Pro-abortion 'Jews' dominate such anti-life groups as the
American Civil Liberties Union and People for the American Way.

 Of the 41 Jewish-born members of the U.S. Senate over the last
20 years, 32 (or 80 percent) have been stridently pro-abortion.

 Numerous liberal Jewish groups openly support and advocate
abortion, including the American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish
Congress, the National Council of Jewish Women, Hadassah Women, the
Federation of Reconstructionist Congregations, the Jewish Labor
Committee, the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, B'nai B'rith
Women, Na'amat USA, the National Council of Jewish Women, the National
Federation of Temple Sisterhood, the New Jewish Agenda, North American
Temple Youth, the United Synagogues of America, and the Women's League
for Conservative Judaism. Many of these groups were founded for the
express purpose of pushing abortion.

 Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem were both born Jewish. So was
France's health minister Simone Weil, who established abortion on
demand in that country despite surviving Auschwitz. At a Paris news
conference, she said "We are out to destroy the family. The best
way to do that is to begin by attacking its weakest member, the unborn
child."

 The officially suppressed Lichter-Rothman studies revealed the
following fascinating information about the 'movers and shakers' of
the media (both researchers, by the way, are Jewish): Leaders of the
motion picture industry: 95% pro-abortion, 62% Jewish: Leaders of the
television industry: 97% pro-abortion, 59% Jewish: Leaders of the news
media industry: 90% pro-abortion, 23% Jewish.

 Jewish groups are in the forefront as desperate pro-abortion
groups spend tens of millions of dollars in a nationwide advertising
campaign to keep abortion legal. For example, the American Jewish
Congress ran a ridiculous $30,000 full-page ad in the February 28,
1989 New York Times entitled "Abortion and the Sacredness
of Life." This statement, renamed "An open letter to those
who would ban abortion," and run in the March 13-19 issue of Roll
Call, includes the amazing lead-in question, "Did you know
that abortion can be a religious requirement? Not just permitted, but required?"
The statement goes on to make the point that it is far better to kill
a baby than to endanger or even mildly depress the mother.

Naturally, the press gives pro-abortion 'Jews' great play, and
excuses them from actions that it would vigorously condemn pro-lifers
for. Imagine what the press would do to a pro-life activist who attacked
and seriously injured a Jewish abortionist with a baseball bat! Yet,
when Jewish abortionist Barnett Slepian beat a pro-life activist in the
head with a baseball bat and seriously injured him, the press and
abortophiles whined that pro-lifers were anti-Semitic for picketing his
home!

At Slepian's trial, Amherst Town Justice Sherwood Bestry said to him
"The Court feels you have suffered a great deal on account of
this." Following this "trial," the Amherst Town Board
immediately banned the picketing of homes by pro-lifers. Violators of
this ordinance face a $500 fine and six months in jail.[19]

The Essential Point.

The essential point regarding virtually all pro-abortion 'Jews' is
precisely this; they are no more Jewish than members of 'Catholics' for
a Free Choice are Catholic. They do not practice their faith. They are
atheists in fact, if not in name.

They use the Jewish faith only as a handy shield against criticism.
It is true that some of them may appear at Temple occasionally, but
these people, who have been aptly described as "the most
contemptible of hypocrites," are no more Jewish than Teddy Kennedy
or Frances Kissling are Catholic. And just as Kennedy and Kissling use
their alleged Catholicism as a propaganda tool, 'Jewish' abortophiles
use their Jewishness to contest the undeniable fact that the protection
of preborn life is part of the Judeo-Christian ethic, and part of Mosaic
law as understood by both Christians and Jews.

Just as real Christians are pro-life, so also are real Jews!
And pro-lifers must not be afraid of exposing and opposing
pro-abortionists, regardless of their nationality, race, or religious
affiliation.

Pro-Lifers = Nazis?

The Charges.

Pro-abortion 'Jews' are by no means above using the tactic of
transference to smear their opposition. This psychological ploy,
described in Chapter 13 of Volume I, means that they attribute their own
worst characteristics to pro-lifers in order to muddy the waters and
divert attention from their own murderous activities. This tactic
generally includes the use of the 'victim' status as a shield against
criticism.

For example, Judith Antonelli wrote in the Boston Jewish Advocate
that "The anti-Semitic nature of the anti-abortion movement in
general ... is not at all difficult to prove."

When asked for such proof, Antonelli naturally declined to answer.

This is a curious statement, in light of the fact that pro-abortion
bigotry against Catholics originated with two prominent Jews, Larry
Lader and Bernard Nathanson.

In his book Aborting America, Dr. Nathanson describes part of
a 1969 conversation he had with fellow abortophile Larry Lader, in which
Lader theorized that; "Historically, every revolution has to have
its villain ... Now, in our case, it makes little sense to lead a
campaign only against unjust laws, even though that's what we really are
doing. We have to narrow the focus, identify those unjust laws with a
person or a group of people ... There's always been one group of people
in this country associated with reactionary politics, behind-the-scenes
manipulations, socially backward ideas. You know who I mean, Bernie ...
the Catholic hierarchy. That's a small enough group to come down on, and
anonymous enough so that no names ever have to be mentioned ...
"[20]

Other even more extreme anti-Catholic statements made by Lader and
other early members of the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL)
are described in Chapter 62.

Naturally, Gentile pro-abortion politicians are eager to accuse
pro-lifers of anti-Semitism to raise funds for their campaigns.

One particularly repulsive example was provided by Senator Bob
Packwood ("Senator Death") of Oregon, who targeted pro-Israel
supporters all over the country in a 1986 fundraising letter that reads
as follows (Packwood, who prides himself on his role in engineering
advances for women, apparently has a twenty-year record of making
advances on women).

Note how Packwood very subtly and skillfully switches from denouncing
neo-Nazi groups to railing against pro-lifers, while in the process
tying the two together; " ... somewhere, some kid who has never
known a Jew, and doesn't understand the Holocaust, sits in the dark and
listens to this [neo-Nazi] filth. And to that kid, their message may
make sense. Kids like that don't get messages just from the Aryan
Nations or other radical groups. They also hear from those who use these
groups's tactics ... For example, because I support the right of a woman
to make a choice about whether or not she wants to have an abortion,
some extreme right-wing groups have labeled me 'Senator Death' and
targeted me for political destruction ... in their literature they
describe me and all pro-choice people as having 'the blood of millions
of innocent human lives on your hands.' And it troubles me that the same
kid who listens to the message of the Aryan Nations will listen to this
message as well ... They all show a totalitarian inability to hear both
sides of an issue. They are "intolerant" and
"intolerable.""[21]

The Rebuttal.

Syndicated columnist Don Feder, himself a practicing Jew, effectively
rebuts the spurious charge of pro-life anti-Semitism; "The
Hitlerite scourge destroyed one-third of my people. If Operation Rescue
can persuade those Jewish women who are mesmerized by the siren song of
radical autonomy to keep their babies, it will have made an invaluable
contribution to Jewish survival."[22]

The summary of the situation is this: The victims of the first
Holocaust are now perpetrating a second Holocaust while alleging that
those who oppose the second Holocaust are the same as those who
perpetrated the first one.

Is that clear to everyone?

Despite all of this confusing crossfire, Jewish and Christian
pro-life activists are continually inspired by the teachings of rabbis
like Yehuda Levin of Brooklyn, who has been personally involved in
Operation Rescue and constantly points out the true Jewish teaching
regarding abortion: That whoever kills a "man within a man"
shall be punished (Genesis IX, 6). Rabbi Levin constantly exhorts
pro-lifers all over the country to become involved, and can be reached
for consultation or speaking engagements at

At no time do 'Jewish' abortophiles become more indignant than when
pro-lifers explain and publicize the many parallels between the original
Nazi Holocaust and the one occurring in the United States right now. The
intensity of their reaction to such analogies is almost comically
vitriolic.

Abortophile Regina Barshak squawked loudly when pro-lifers drew the
Old/New Holocaust analogy, in an article entitled "A Jewish Cry of
Protest" (not a "woman's cry of protest" or an
"American Cry of Protest" but a "Jewish Cry of
Protest");

For the purposes of this political campaign, they [pro-lifers] help
themselves at the expense of cheapening the memory of those millions
of murdered men, women and children, as well as at the expense of the
personal distress caused by an apparently disrespectful use of events
... It must be noted that while millions of men, women and children
relentlessly dragged themselves to their death under the boots of
their tormentors for nearly a decade, neither the voices of the
prestigious leaders of the Vatican nor the voices of "Value of
Life" persons were heard on behalf of these tortured lives. Now
this world drama is exploited in the form of a callous and cheap and
convenient cliche for the self-serving purposes of a political
controversy.[23]

Not only is Barshak's knowledge of history abysmal, but her
transparent anti-Catholic bigotry clearly shows through. Prominent
Jewish leaders have acknowledged the actions of the Vatican and of
various Fundamentalist churches in saving the lives of tens of thousands
of Jews during World War II.

During the War, Pope Pius XII authorized the issuing of more than
10,000 Vatican ration tickets, identity cards, and other papal documents
to refugees at great risk to both himself and the Vatican. The Vatican's
Crusade of Charity directly assisted more than 695,000 victims of the
war, including a large percentage of Jews. The Pope saved the lives of
hundreds of Jews by paying to the Nazis a ransom of one hundred pounds
of gold, obtained by melting down religious vessels. And the Pope and
his officials established 180 places of refuge within the tiny confines
of the Vatican, which sheltered more than five thousand Jews during the
Nazi occupation of Rome.[24]

Upon the close of the war, the Chief Rabbi of Rome, who had been
sheltered for months in the Vatican, converted to Catholicism.[24]

But these historical facts mean nothing to common bigots like Barshak,
who will slavishly ignore all evidence in their almost pathological
desire to condemn the Catholic Church, which remains the single greatest
obstacle to free and easy abortion on demand.

Masturbation guru Sol Gordon has angrily denounced the Old/New
Holocaust analogy in even more direct terms;

In our view, individuals who exhibit the least human dignity are
those who compare the Holocaust, the mass murder of 6 million Jews, to
abortion. There exists no comparison more immoral or depraved. It is
both illogical and outrageous to suggest that the calculated murder of
millions of children and adults can be equated with an individual
woman's decision to terminate her pregnancy ...[25]

Notice how pro-aborts like to have it both ways; when pro-lifers
enter the political arena, abortophiles snivel that they are trying to
impose a "profoundly religious" viewpoint on everyone and
then, when pro-lifers try to become involved in church activities, the
abortion issue suddenly becomes a "political campaign," as
Barshak asserts.

Pro-lifers should not be misled by the agonized bleating of 'Jews'
who are aggressively promoting abortion. For these people, preserving
their precious abortion 'right' is infinitely more important than
honoring the memory of the victims of the original Holocaust.

A detailed examination of the many parallels between the original and
current Holocausts is contained in Chapter 53. This chapter also
features more examples of abortophile objections to the analogy and
rebuts each of them.

Why Are the Victims Now
the Perpetrators?

Why Indeed?

The current situation is deeply troubling, in light of the fact that
two-thirds of the victims of Hitler's gas chambers were Jewish. Why are
the victims of one Holocaust perpetrating another? Has the world and
particularly the victims not learned the lessons of World War II?

The 'Hardening Theory.'

Some Jewish pro-life activists, including Rabbi Mordechai Blank,
speculate that pro-abortion 'Jews' are simply hardened to the horrors of
persecution and feel justified in persecuting others.

For example, the chief proponent of abortion in the Israeli Knesset
(Parliament) was feminist Chaike Crossman, who suffered in Auschwitz
during World War II.[26] Another outstanding example is Henry
Morgentaler of Canada, who was also interned at Auschwitz.[27] This
prolific abortionist was the driving force behind the legalization of
abortion in Canada. He ignored any abortion law that did not suit him,
and set up illegal clinics that were actually protected by local police.
Morgentaler gave us a revealing glimpse into his murderous personality
when he said that "It took me years to get rid of this image [of
myself helpless in the concentration camps]. And to do that, it was
absolutely necessary to oppose authority whatever the authority may
be."[28]

Perhaps Morgentaler is 'taking out' his frustrations and his pain on
preborn babies.

The Assimilation Theory.

However, a more likely explanation is that Jewish culture has simply
been assimilated into the Humanistic melting-pot of the West to a large
degree, and perhaps the extended suffering experienced by the Jews has
equipped them with a 'battle-ready' philosophy that can be more easily
adapted to social activism than the mentality of those other groups
whose struggles for the right to exist are few and far between.

In our great melting pot, the 'lowest common denominator' i.e., the
easiest rules to follow are readily adopted by those who do not
vigilantly guard and treasure their heritage.

Pro-abortion 'Jews,' along with pro-abortion 'Catholics,' Methodists,
Lutherans and Episcopalians, have simply lost sight of their roots and
have cloaked themselves in the mantle of Humanism.

And, since Humanism does not recognize the existence of an eternal
soul, abortion comes naturally to all of those who are hoodwinked into
forgetting their roots.

[11] John Dart. "Most U.S. Jews Call Judaism a Culture, not a
Religion, Poll Shows." The Washington Post, June 22, 1991.

[12] Survey is described in the American Family Association Journal,
June 1987, page 2.

[13] J. David Bleich. "Abortion and Jewish Law." New
Perspectives on Human Abortion. Edited by Thomas W. Hilgers, M.D.,
Dennis J. Horan, and David Mall. Frederick, Maryland: Aletheia Books,
University Publications of America, 1981. Pages 405 to 419. This article
is the best available summary of historical Jewish teaching on abortion.
The book itself is a superb compilation of essays by the most
experienced pro-lifers in the world, dealing with virtually all of the
basic issues involved in taking human life. An excellent primer for any
pro-life activist.

[15] Rabbi Doctor Chaim U. Lipschitz. "A Rabbi Looks at
Abortion." Supplement to the Catholic League newsletter of June
1977. Available as a reprint from the Catholic League, 1100 West Wells
Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233.

[16] Dr. Louis C. Gerstein, Associate Rabbi, Spanish-Portuguese
Synagogue of New York, quoted in The National Committee on Maternal
Health, Inc. The Abortion Problem: The Proceedings of the Conference
of the National Committee on Maternal Health, Inc., at the New York
Academy of Medicine, June 19 and 20, 1942. Baltimore: Williams &
Wilkins Company, 1942. Page 173.

[18] "Abortion and the Holocaust: Twisting the Language."
'Religious' Coalition for Abortion Rights, 100 Maryland Avenue NE,
Washington, DC 20002, telephone: (202) 543-7032. 1987, 24 pages. This
booklet is stylishly written and laid out on only the best paper. It
features five short essays by apostate 'Jews' and phony 'Christians'
that are masterpieces of Doublethink and propaganda. This booklet is
mandatory reading for any pro-lifer who wants insight into just how
clever pro-abort propaganda can be.

[23] Regina Barshak. "A Jewish Cry of Protest." Letter in The
Boston Globe, March 18, 1972. Also distributed by the National
Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) for propaganda purposes on page 44
of their looseleaf booklet entitled "Organizing for Action."
Prepared by Vicki Z. Kaplan for the National Abortion Rights Action
League, 250 West 57th Street, New York, N.Y. 10019. 51 pages, no date.

[26] Father Paul Marx. Confessions of a Pro-Life Missionary.
1988, 353 pages, hardback, softback. Published by Human Life
International, 7845-E Airpark Road, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20879. This
is an excellent account of Father Marx's travels all over the world
since the founding of HLI in 1981. It is a firsthand account of his
battle against U.S. 'contraceptive imperialism,' International Planned
Parenthood, and abortion in dozens of countries.

[27] Life and Family News, June 1987, page 2. Published by the
Life and Family Center, Box 7244, Collegeville, Minnesota 56321.

Bernard M. Nathanson, M.D. The Abortion Papers: Inside the
Abortion Mentality. Idea Books, Post Office Box 4010, Madison, Wisconsin 53711. 1985,
192 pages. Reviewed by Nancy Koster on page 6 of the November 24, 1983
issue of National Right to Life News. A former prolific
abortionist exposes the anti-Catholic bigotry of the pro-abortion
movement, discusses the role of the blatantly biased media in obtaining
abortion on demand, and explores what the science of fetology has
revealed about the unborn child. This enjoyable book is written in
George Will's wry and acerbic style. Dr. Nathanson is one of the
co-founders of the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL).
Chapter 3, "Catholics," pages 177 to 209, describes in detail
how NARAL used blatant anti-Catholic bigotry to push liberalized
abortion laws and undermine the teachings of the Church. Other examples
of NARAL skulduggery abound in this book. For example, NARAL asserted to
the state of Massachusetts that pro-life groups have no right to endorse
pro-life candidates, even if the groups are not tax-exempt. In the
ensuing lawsuit, Federal Election Commission v. Massachusetts
Citizens for Life, Inc., the right to distribute such literature was
upheld. This is typical of the harassment lawsuits brought by NARAL and
others when any pro-life efforts are in progress. Pro-aborts almost
never spend money themselves, but get a government entity to go after
pro-life activists. Also see Chapter 1, "Abortion and the
Media," pages 7 to 109, and Chapter 2, "Fetology for
Pro-Life," pages 111 to 175. Chapter 2 consists of a detailed and
interesting history of fetology in the United States.

Gershom Scholem. "The Holiness of Sin."
Commentary, January 1971, pages 41 to 70. A landmark document that
explains how the nihilism of the Sabbatian and Frankist movements, which
held that the violation of the Torah was in actuality its true
fulfillment, were outgrowths of the belief of the Messiahship of
Sabbatai Zevi (before his apostasy), and that this nihilism in turn led
to the Reform movement of the 19th Century. Very heavy reading, but
traces the roots of how the Jewish faith has splintered just as the
Christian faith has. This article is accompanied by Commentary
editor Norman Podhoretz' article drawing an analogy to modern political
movements and how they are led and influenced by apostate or cultural
Jews.

Those wishing to aid the cause of life in Israel may write to the
only organized pro-life group in the country: "Efrath-Hazchut
Lichyot", Post Office Box 15004, Jerusalem, Israel, Telephone:
02-817963. This group is modeled after pro-life organizations in the
United States, but with a Jewish flavor.

"Holocaust: New and Old." A 14-page booklet containing the complete interview by National
Catholic Register editor Patrick Riley with Elasah Drogin of the group
Remnant of Israel. The subject of the interview was the parallel between
the Nazi Holocaust and the one now happening in the United States, and
the willing complicity of cultural Jews in the slaughter. This booklet
is available from Catholics United for Life, New Hope, Kentucky 40052.